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@gerhardbaut8312 Brought to light has always represented birth, or being reborn, as well as being used as a term for having been educated in what is hidden (the arcane). In reality, a Mage was nothing more than one who was educated.
Biblical literalists can never accept that the Torah, or all of the Bible for that matter, are metaphors for something else. Most of the Torah contains rewritten accounts, with the names changed, of things that happened in ancient Mesopotamia or at other places.
A good example of this is the word, satan. In Hebrew, it was almost always written as "ha satan," meaning "the satan," and it was a word used for a sinner (a criminal, someone who broke the moral law, or one who was an obstructionist). Even in Job, satan wasn't the angel's name, but it was a title, a criminal/obstructionist.
It was the Romans who bastardized satan, to match their pagan tale of Hades, the God of the underworld and Gold. In the NT, this is why Jesus tells James to "get behind me, satan." He didn't call James some invisible devil (Hades), but an obstructionist in his native tongue, because James was arguing with him about what to do.
Baal is another example, which is a Hebrew word that really means landlord. Someone who was landed, a noble from the second estate. That is what most of those pagan gods really were, ancient rulers and nobles, similar to the Greek rulers thinking themselves gods. That is the arcane knowledge.
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